Charles Edmund Ford

Last updated • a couple of secsFrom Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Charles Edmund Ford
FRS FLS FZS
Born(1912-10-24)24 October 1912
Died7 January 1999(1999-01-07) (aged 86)
Education King's College London
Scientific career
FieldsCytogenetics

Charles Edmund Ford FRS FLS FZS (24 October 1912 7 January 1999) was a cytogeneticist. [1]

Educated at Slough Grammar School, he graduated in botany from King's College London. [2] He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1965. He was also a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London and the Zoological Society of London

Related Research Articles

Sir Charles Harding Firth was a British historian. He was one of the founders of the Historical Association in 1906. Esmond de Beer wrote that Firth "knew the men and women of the seventeenth century much as a man knows his friends and acquaintances, not only as characters but also in the whole moral and intellectual world in which they lived."

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Edmund Campion</span> 16th-century English Jesuit priest, martyr and saint

Edmund Campion, SJ was an English Jesuit priest and martyr. While conducting an underground ministry in officially Anglican England, Campion was arrested by priest hunters. Convicted of high treason, he was hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn. Campion was beatified by Pope Leo XIII in 1886 and canonised in 1970 by Pope Paul VI as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. His feast day is celebrated on 1 December.

William John Hamilton was a British geologist who served as a Conservative Member of Parliament.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">E. B. Ford</span> British ecological geneticist (1901–1988)

Edmund Brisco "Henry" Ford was a British ecological geneticist. He was a leader among those British biologists who investigated the role of natural selection in nature. As a schoolboy Ford became interested in lepidoptera, the group of insects which includes butterflies and moths. He went on to study the genetics of natural populations, and invented the field of ecological genetics. Ford was awarded the Royal Society's Darwin Medal in 1954. In the wider world his best known work is Butterflies (1945). Ford was a member of the UK Eugenics Society, of which he was a council member in 1933-1934, also contributing to its publications.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Edward Bagnall Poulton</span> British evolutionary biologist

Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton, FRS HFRSE FLS was a British evolutionary biologist, a lifelong advocate of natural selection through a period in which many scientists such as Reginald Punnett doubted its importance. He invented the term sympatric for evolution of species in the same place, and in his book The Colours of Animals (1890) was the first to recognise frequency-dependent selection. He is remembered for his pioneering work on animal coloration and camouflage, and in particular for inventing the term aposematism for warning coloration. He became Hope Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford in 1893.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alexander Aitken</span> New Zealand mathematician (1895–1967)

Alexander Craig "Alec" Aitken was one of New Zealand's most eminent mathematicians. In a 1935 paper he introduced the concept of generalized least squares, along with now standard vector/matrix notation for the linear regression model. Another influential paper co-authored with his student Harold Silverstone established the lower bound on the variance of an estimator, now known as Cramér–Rao bound. He was elected to the Royal Society of Literature for his World War I memoir, Gallipoli to the Somme.

Sir Charles Alexander Fleming was a New Zealand geologist, ornithologist, molluscan palaeontologist and environmentalist. He spent the last twenty years of his life studying the evolution and systematics of New Zealand cicadas.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Thomas Ford (martyr)</span> English Roman Catholic priest and martyr

Thomas Ford, a Devonshire native, was a Catholic martyr executed during the reign of Elizabeth I.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Great Ejection</span> 1662 purge of Puritan ministers in the Church of England

The Great Ejection followed the Act of Uniformity 1662 in England. Several thousand Puritan ministers were forced out of their positions in the Church of England following the Restoration of Charles II. It was a consequence of the Savoy Conference of 1661.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Charles Scarborough</span> English physician and mathematician

Sir Charles Scarborough or Scarburgh MP FRS FRCP was an English physician and mathematician.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Charles Moss (bishop of Bath and Wells)</span> English bishop (died 1802)

Charles Moss was an Anglican clergyman who served as Bishop of St David's from 1766 to 1774 and Bishop of Bath and Wells from 1774 to 1802.

Edmund Frederick Robertson is a British mathematician who is a professor emeritus of pure mathematics at the University of St Andrews.

Edmund Goodenough (1786–1845) was an English churchman, dean of Wells from 1831.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Edmund King (physician)</span> English surgeon and physician

Sir Edmund King (c.1630–1709), also Edmund Freeman, Edmond King, was an English surgeon and physician. He is known as an experimentalist, and also for his attendance on Charles II of England.

References

  1. "Obituary: Charles Ford". The Independent .
  2. ‘FORD, Charles Edmund’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016